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2010 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards

for Excellence in Children’s Literature

Fiction: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books)

Honor books: The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan; illustrated by Peter Sís (Scholastic)

A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)

Nonfiction: Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking)

Honor Books: Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures by Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol (Roaring Brook/Flash Point)

Smile by Reina Telgemeier (Scholastic/Graphix)

Picture Books: I Know Here by Laurel Croza; illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood)

Honor Books: The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown)

It's a Secret! by John Burningham (Candlewick)

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The judges were Martha Parravano of the Horn Book; NYTBR Children's Books editor Julie Just; and novelist Gregory Maguire.

Thanks to Read Roger for the announcement

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